‘A’ Mountain & Sun Devil Stadium

Tempe Butte is more commonly known as “A Mountain” – for obvious reasons. Each year in the run up to the Arizona State University vs. University of Arizona football game the ASU students take shifts to guard the steel and concrete ‘A’ from being painted a different colour by the rival team.

Just to the east is Sun Devil Stadium, home of Superbowl XXX. Apparently the parking lot is full not because of a game, but because students can park there cheap.

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I can tell you right now that parking there isnt cheap, you end up parking up to 2 miles from your class, and they continually decrease the number of spaces, increase the price, and turn needed parking lots into high price condos for profit at our expense.

The dry river is the Salt River, which is now damned several times and only flows when Salt River Project allows it to. Tempe Town Lake now occupies the riverbed directly north of the stadium, but the water in it is transported from the Colorado River. As a result of the lake, ASU now sports a rowing team.

To the southwest of the “A” is a diamond-shaped building. That’s Tempe’s city hall, and it’s actually an inverted pyramid.

South of there a few block (where the road, Mill Avenue, arcs to the east becoming Apache) is Grady Gammage Auditorium, a rather nice Frank Lloyd Wright designed building (which isn’t all that impressive from this viewpoint)

East of campus by an Arizona Public Service (APS) plant are three big water towers, which sport “ASU”, “Tempe” and “APS” logos on them.

SE a bit is a geodesic dome that used to be a bank (don’t know what it is now) that kind of shows up on the map (View Placemark / Google Earth)

As for the “nice circular something” (you mean View Placemark / Google Earth , right?), I noticed that the Phoenix area does a lot of that sort of thing in the rockery and dirt next to its highway offramps and interchanges. I submitted a ton of links to those a while back, maybe they’ll appear here someday. Like View Placemark / Google Earth or View Placemark / Google Earth
I seem to remember one on one of those roads somewhere where the designs on the sides of the interchange look like lizards, but I can’t find it.

Parking space is another problem for students, as it has always been… No such this as a perfect school, right? That’s why they can just take advantage of the nearest free space nearby.

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